Barcelona’s opera house, the Gran Teatre del Liceu, was founded on the Rambla in 1847, being the oldest in Spain, and has continued over the years to fulfil its role as a culture and arts centre and one of the symbols of the city. Today it is publicly-owned (by the […]
THE MEDITERRANEAN AS INSPIRATION AND AS A PASSION A career built on interest in cultures, music, people, languages and the history of the Mediterranean, which are the inspiration for María del Mar Bonet’s personal and artistic life, make her a Mediterranean singer par excellence, With more than 40 albums to […]
The creator of the work that astonishes the world Barceló’s plastic intervention on the dome of Room XX of the Palais des Nations in Geneva started on 10 September 2007 and ended on 10 June 2008. Miquel Barceló was born in Felanitx, Mallorca, in 1957. He studied at the School […]
Understanding and comprehension between cultures, through music. In the hall of Human Rights and the Alliance of Civilizations, Master Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan orchestra -made up of musicians from Palestina, Israel and diverse Arab countries- plays the Concerts for Human Rights. Daniel Barenboim is the General Music Director of the […]
For the right to education and the dignity of children. The acclaimed Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez offered a memorable concert, seconded by the sopranos Pretty Yende and Fatma Said and the Russian bass Sergey Artamonov. The orchestra, formed by fifty of the best musicians of the Youth Orchestras System, […]